The Unabomber's family photo album

Kaczynski family photo

Ted Kaczynski, about 5 months old, with his father, Ted "Turk" Kaczynski, at their home on South Marshfield Avenue in Chicago in October 1942. At the tail end of the Great Depression, a fiery young Wanda Dombek met sausage maker Turk Kaczynski at the Settlement House, Back of the Yards' answer to Jane Addams' Hull House. Here, immigrants gathered to better themselves, to learn English and to become socially active. Both blue-collar intellectuals, Turk and Wanda's dates consisted of long, cold walks through the city and heated political debate. Wanda always was more liberal than Turk, more outspoken, which both exasperated and compelled him. After a three-year courtship, they could afford to get married. Their first child, Ted, followed soon after, on May 22, 1942.

Ted Kaczynski, about 5 months old, with his father, Ted "Turk" Kaczynski, at their home on South Marshfield Avenue in Chicago in October 1942. At the tail end of the Great Depression, a fiery young Wanda Dombek met sausage maker Turk Kaczynski at the Settlement House, Back of the Yards' answer to Jane Addams' Hull House. Here, immigrants gathered to better themselves, to learn English and to become socially active. Both blue-collar intellectuals, Turk and Wanda's dates consisted of long, cold walks through the city and heated political debate. Wanda always was more liberal than Turk, more outspoken, which both exasperated and compelled him. After a three-year courtship, they could afford to get married. Their first child, Ted, followed soon after, on May 22, 1942. (Kaczynski family photo)

Baby Ted Kaczynski with his parents, Turk and Wanda Kaczynski, at their Southwest Side home, circa 1943. Joy in the arrival of their first child was cut short when, 9 months later, Ted was rushed to the Children's Pediatric Clinic at the University of Chicago with a serious case of hives. As Wanda tells the story today, at age 91, it haunts her. Ted's infant experience there, she believes, contributed to a mental illness, began pattern of isolation and a contradictory fear of abandonment--though Ted would later dismiss the story as an elaborate fiction. "In those days, the way they treated children was barbaric," she says. "They didn't let the parents stay with the child." The hospital kept baby Teddy for more than a week, letting Wanda see him only twice, for an hour each visit. "He was abandoned, as far as he knew," she remembers. "It just broke my heart when I would visit because he was lifeless, limp." When Teddy finally was discharged, Wanda says, "I came to pick him up and he was like a little rag doll. He didn't look at me ... he didn't respond in any way. It frightened the hell out of me. It was really a very painful episode in our lives."

Baby Ted Kaczynski with his parents, Turk and Wanda Kaczynski, at their Southwest Side home, circa 1943. Joy in the arrival of their first child was cut short when, 9 months later, Ted was rushed to the Children's Pediatric Clinic at the University of Chicago with a serious case of hives. As Wanda tells the story today, at age 91, it haunts her. Ted's infant experience there, she believes, contributed to a mental illness, began pattern of isolation and a contradictory fear of abandonment--though Ted would later dismiss the story as an elaborate fiction. "In those days, the way they treated children was barbaric," she says. "They didn't let the parents stay with the child." The hospital kept baby Teddy for more than a week, letting Wanda see him only twice, for an hour each visit. "He was abandoned, as far as he knew," she remembers. "It just broke my heart when I would visit because he was lifeless, limp." When Teddy finally was discharged, Wanda says, "I came to pick him up and he was like a little rag doll. He didn't look at me ... he didn't respond in any way. It frightened the hell out of me. It was really a very painful episode in our lives." (Kaczynski family photo)

When Dave Kaczyinski turned in the Unabomber, he lost a once-dear sibling but forged another remarkable bond -- with one of his brother's victims. Between 1978 and 1995, Ted Kaczynski engaged in a nation-wide bombing campaign, killing three people and injuring 23 others. On Jan. 22, 1998, he pleaded guilty to the Unabomber crimes.